#19: How to Predict the Future of Humanity with Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl is a man of many
titles and distinctions: he is a novelist, blogger,
futurist,member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and former White House and Aspen
Institute Crown Fellow,with
aPh.D. in Asian history
from Oxford, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.
As an expert in
geopolitics and biotechnology who currently serves as a Senior
Fellow of the Atlantic Council, Jamie’s syndicated columns and
regular television appearances have been fixtures of the
international conversation aboutAsian economic and political
issues.

Jamie has also authored multiple
novels, includingThe Depths of The SeaandGenesis
Code, which deal with
issues of human genetic enhancement in the context of a future
US-China rivalry. His new novel,Eternal
Sonata, explores issues
relating to extreme human life extension.

As if this panoply of impressive
achievements wasn’t enough to characterize Metzl as contemporary
Renaissance man, he has also completed thirteen Ironman
triathalons, twenty-nine marathons, and twelve
ultramarathons.

In a recent conversation with
IVY’s co-founder, Beri Meric, Jamie dove deep into everything from
the current geopolitical climate, to the future and moral
implications of genetic engineering on a global scale.

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